Topic: GekkoScience NewPac / Terminus R606 (BM1387) Official Support Thread - page 81. (Read 61906 times)

The Pi's seem to prefer a wired connection for best performance from my experience.  I think the Pi's wireless component shares some of the resources as the USB ports also. My two R808's maxed out a Pi 3 so additional 2Pacs were run on a separate Pi 3. The Pi 3+ never exceeds 12% resource utilization in Raspbian with the 12 NewPac's.

Someone here might have better insight into how the Pi handles resources. I am going to try three GS hubs and 18 NewPacs on the 3+ but have another Pi should the USB ports be overwhelmed. A/B enabled should allow it to work, fingers crossed.

No apology needed. Just glad everything went well.


Racial slur? Not sure those count in comedy. The best retort would have been to jest at american expense than being so literal. I think it's called banter.

We have a unit on it's way back to GS. Looks like just a loose usb, maybe a rough transit or something but these are pretty sturdy in general. Feel like I could safely flip it in my hand, not that anyone should. Demo is still pumping, close to 900gh/s average.

Actually, to avoid the racial slur ... MSG would also be Doritos, KFC, Chik-Fil-A and Pringles ... USA companies.

Apologies, corrected. Awesome service to Canada, appreciated.

MFG? Sounds like bad chinese food.

As an experiment I setup a Raspberry Pi Zero W with the GS hub and three R606's.
After a full day the hash rate on all three match the Pi 3b+ speed which is 900Gh.  These are also the numbers I saw on a Windows 10 PC.
Next is the TinkerBoard but it will probably just be the same. 

I think the only two constraints (as others have mentioned) are the USB traffic and the possibly the network connection.
The fact that it worked at all with the Pi Zero was surprising let alone at the same speed.

Running 12 Newpac's here on 2 GS hubs using and RP 3+, no issues at 250mhz. Both plugged into the Pi3+ directly with a usb mouse and wireless (usb) keyboard.

Each hub as 2 Arctic 92mm USB fans plugged in for cooling. Temperatures are approx. 80F at the heatsink using the temp gun recommended by Philipma1957. Room temp is 72F.

Power supply is Corsair 550T Gold. Power consumption is around 75W max.

I have to stress that the NewPac's and GS hubs are a perfect combo. I've ordered a third setup from MFB because these work so well together.

Kudos to Sidehack, great products.

I also have a detailed instructions on page 28 of this thread that outlines step by step on how to setup the Raspberry Pi for the newpac's outlining the original instructions from the 1st page.   All in all will take you maybe 15 to 20 minutes to get everything setup and ready to mine since you are also installing the OS.  Just follow the steps in the link  DieselWeaseI provided on how to get the OS installed on a micro SD card for the Pi and then continue with the mining setup portion.

I have 4 newpac's and 2 moonlanders currently running on the Pi trouble free.

the operating system gets loaded on to the SD card

link below:

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/installation/installing-images/

The short answer is "no, the algorithm is built into the hardware. This has been the case with all ASICs since the beginning of ASIC mining."

The long answer is "yes, but..." where the "but..." involves a workaround using special pools that have you mine one currency but pay you in a different currency with payout rates depending on exchange values and the like. There's probably more about that in the Altcoin board, and also Rockmoney (who sells these guys on Amazon as MinerSupply, which may have been where you got them from to begin with) has a decent writeup somewhere for how to set that kind of thing up.

I have a standard keyboard and mouse connected to my Pi.  So I'm guessing the combined demand was too much of a draw.  I could test it later if need be?

Edit: I tinkered a little just to satisfy my curiosity.  The Pi says during bootup that it detected an undervoltage and displayed a lightening bolt every once in while in the top right hand corner.  But it did boot up this time with and without the keyboard and mouse.  It detected the undervoltage both times though.  I have a Pi 3 B+.  I didn't let it ramp up to full power though, I just shutdown and went back the RPi P/S.

Could be then. The 5V on the R606 is the same circuit as powers the D/1 (weaker) port pair on the metal Gekko hubs so it's good for 2-2.5A while the main ports on the hub will push 6A per pair. Not sure what the power draw is on a 7" screen but it's certainly a lot more than zero.

I tried to run the Pi off the R606's USB and it would not boot.  Now it is running off one of the ports on the Gekko USB hub and it working well.  Mine has a 7" Waveshare LCD powering from the Pi so I assumed the power troubles were because of that.

Just as an experiment I am going to try running the miner on a Pi Z - though I don't really expect it to work.  It will be cool if it does since you can get them for $5 from Micro Center right now in the US.  Somewhere I have a Asus Tinkerboard too that I may try.  Either way I'll post results in case any one is interested.

Weird that it wouldn't boot. The Pi I've got for testing is pretty old, but I've only ever run it powered off the pod while testing. It can't be that the miner's 5V is no good, because that also powers all the lights, the onboard controls and USB communication. Depending on the Pi model, it might be asking for too much power; some of the newer models, I'm told, can draw as much as 3A.

I got my Pi running yesterday.  So far I'm getting about the same performance as I was with my Win7 PC w/ Quad Core I-7.

Also the Pi wouldn't boot when using the miner as the power source so I'm using the Pi Power supply.  I'll do some more testing today and post my numbers.

What OS are you running on the Pi? I set mine up with Raspbian using NOOBS installer. Are you using the R606 to power it or using a separate power supply? Overclocking the Pi at all?

Not sure why so many people are having trouble running a NewPac stick and/or a R606 Terminus on the latest Raspberry Pi B3+ models. Unless the issue is specifically with earlier Raspberry Pi models?

Personally, I have never had the desire to own a Pi, so I never got one. Lately, so many of our customers and other members were experiencing Pi-related issues, so I finally decided to buy one last week, and just now found some time to get it up and running.

Following the latest instructions from vh as seen on the OP was a breeze (except for one copy/paste issue on the "CFLAGS="-O2" ./autogen.sh" part, which was easily fixed by typing that one line in manually.

If you have any experience with Linux or Ubuntu, getting the first R606 up and mining took me only ~15 minutes (and my Linux/Ubuntu experience is fairly minimal). I just plugged my third R606 into the Pi, after getting just under ~2Th/s from the first two were left mining for about an hour.

I am using a 94% Platinum HP 1200 Watt PSU, plugged into a USA standard 120V receptacle/outlet, paired with [an of equal quality to sidehack's breakout board], but the version X7B from Parallel Miner. Power/voltage level is set to 7 (the highest), and I am using


to run each R606 in a separate instance. I will let this third R606 get up to speed, and post some screenshots soon!

that would be interesting to follow...I've been eyeballing the Odroid XU4 since it's got some hefty horsepower to hopefully allow me to turn the miner all the way up if I so desire. I'm just not too fond of having to buy a separate screen and create a housing and/or mount for it if I go that route.

I have been testing with a BBB and have been getting good results, surprisingly as a BBB often has USB issues with devices. I also tried using a Odroid C2 which doesn't even see any devices so is totally useless. My next test is an old Odroid X2, which has been used as a controller for all of sidehack's and many other different miners. The only miner so far it hasn't worked with is the futurbit's.

BBB: Debian, Rosewill 10 port USB 2.0 hub
4x 606 390mv 180watt 1.9 / 1.92th
4x 606 430mv 320watt 3.16th    

Odroid X2: Ubuntu, Rosewill 10 port USB 2.0 hub
All usb device drop and cgminer crashes when auto-tune try's to change clock speed.

Anytime, glad to help